So this past sunday night at the BCM leadership meeting, I was given information on people who had shown an interest in wanting a personal relationship with Jesus. After already planning on going out witnessing with Brad, Clay, and Sarah...the plans changed and Clay, Brad, and I decided to call these people up. The guy I first called said that he was saved back when he was 10, but that he had gotten into a little bit of partying in college and was trying to get back to God....which, as Clay and I discovered implies that he received the Word at once with joy but his plant actually had not root at all, thus no salvation, and he was pulled up. I asked him the question, why did you "accept" Jesus and go down front? To which he responded that he grew up in church and wanted to do it because he saw others do it. I asked him if he had ever at one point in his life realized that he was going to Hell for his sin if he didn't turn to Jesus, to which he answered, "No". I was shocked....As I shared with him the whole reason Jesus gave His life, he still acted as though it wasn't that big of a deal that he had done it for the wrong reasons....what is scary is the Bible says that it would be better if these people were never born! I mean, what a horrible thing to say about someone. I pray that God would convict him of his sin and lack of salvation and point him to Himself. Then, Clay called a girl on my phone who acknowledged that without Christ, Hell would be her destiny and stated that she wanted to turn from her sins to Him. Though she was quite emotional, I guess time will show whether or not that seed was planted on good soil and will produce fruit of a new creation in her. It is scary to think that some people think they are saved and in reality are not. I pray for our campus to have eyes to see their hoplessness apart from totally surrendering all to God's Son and living a life worthy of their calling.
An old country song goes like this: “Lord, it’s hard to be humble, when you’re perfect in every way.” Most of us would not put it so bluntly, but we all find it hard to be humble. The problem with us is that we forget who we are in the grand scheme of things. We must remember that we are but dust created in the image of God and made to display His worth. One particular passage of Scripture is thoroughly helpful in turning our eyes off our own navels and onto God’s glory: Philippians 2:5-11. By meditating on the gospel in this text, even the most prideful among us will be leveled low. To stay in a humbled position... 1. Feast your eyes on the matchless glory of Christ (vv. 5-6) “ Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus, who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped …” Paul ascends to breathe the air of Mount Everest in this ancient hymn of the church. He speaks of Jesus’ divinity and equal status as God ...
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